Milk Duds!

September 4, 2008
The Milkman’s Son
By Tracy C. Baker
Milk Duds #130

Fear and Smear
Ah, the Republican Convention. Where else can you gather a bunch of idiots who, lemming-like, will vote against their own best interest.

The Constitution has been shredded over the last 8 years and yet they quietly acquiesce because “Al Qaeda is gonna get us!”

The middle class has been brought to its knees economically and yet they listen to Bill O’Reilly and nod because “them damn gays are taking over the country!”

They have raided the treasury of this country and sold our future to China and yet conservatives cry and wail that “the Democrats will raise taxes” as our infrastructure and our dollar crumble into dust.

Oilmen and defense contractors have stolen funds meant for our soldiers who fight two wars/occupations under-equipped and under-armed (nearly 30 billion dollars in Iraq war funds are still unaccounted for.) and yet they line up in lockstep and cheer because we are “fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.”

Thousands of our Veterans are ignored, disgraced and denied the rights they fought for as Republicans in Congress (including John McSame) block every attempt to get them the mental, physical, and financial help they deserve as they claim to be the true patriots (and even when a bill slips by, such as the updated GI Bill did recently, they turn-coat and claim it was their idea all along!) yet the conservative masses ignore what is before them and proclaim “God and Country come before anything else!”

Millions have lost jobs while those who haven’t have seen their incomes shrink to the lowest percentage since the Great Depression and yet they applaud and yell out “It must be the Democrats’ fault!” despite controlling all branches of government for 6 of the last 7 ½ years.

Obfuscate, Lie, Cheat, and Steal
As with the last two Presidential elections, the Republicans have no chance to win. Their desire is to simply keep it close enough to cheat their way into office. Evidence is overwhelming that Karl Rove and his minions stole the Ohio vote in 2004. As I write this, tens of thousands of ballots sit uncounted in Ohio, voting machines were tampered with, caging (removing likely Democratic voters from the roles and/or challenging voters at the booths), as in Florida in 2000, was rampant and unchecked by the Republican-controlled Secretary of States’ office, and even more voters were simply denied that chance to vote as heavily Democrat districts were shorted the machines and staffing necessary to conduct the vote.

Sadly, nothing has changed since 2000 or 2004…and we can expect more of the same in 2008. Unless the percentage of voter turn-out is overwhelming, be prepared.

Lies and obfuscation abound on the Republican side – Sarah Palin, the Dan Quayle of 2008, fit right in with her Right-wing colleagues by claiming in her acceptance speech that Community Action is nothing special (Obama helped people who lost their jobs when the steel plant they worked in was closed), being located next to Russia is Foreign policy experience (At least she could help John McSame with his geography – remember “The growing troubles on the Pakistan-Iraq border?”, and Barrack Obama has never authored any major legislation (he has authored or co-authored 7 major bills including an ethics reform bill in his first seven weeks of office.) This gay-bashing, ultra-conservative religious end-timer, who is being kept under wraps from the press while the right-wing talk shows spin her questionable background and attacks those asking legitimate questions is just perfect for a Republican candidate.

Meanwhile, McSame jumps up there and tells the world he is a reformer (who voted with President Smirky more than 90% of the time), he is patriotic (which is why he voted against Veterans Administration funding reforms 11 times, including the revised GI Bill of Rights that Smirky gave him credit for!?!), and he will never lie to you…like when he said he was for a woman’s right to choose, immigration reform, against the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, and against off-shore oil drilling right up until the time he realized he couldn’t win the Republican nomination with those views so they all magically went away. In fact, if all you knew of McSame was tonight’s speech and video, you’d think he was always for the exact opposite of those things and anyone who dared prove him wrong with the cold hard facts was an unpatriotic liar and a supporter of Al Qaeda!

Just Remember, Before The Republicans Took Control…
…we had a budget surplus.
…we had the lowest unemployment rate in 3 decades.
…we were actually doing something about our crumbling infrastructure.
…real wages were rising, not declining.
…we actually had health insurance.
…we had a Constitution and the Rule of Law.

Fini
Tracy

Copyright 2008, The Milkman's Son, Tracy Baker